My grandmother told us that during the Great Depression in PENN white tail were very hard to find do to night shooting
I’ve heard this too
With a light that showed a whole 50'.
Yep. When I was a kid and hunted coons or opossum barefoot at night in the forests around the farm or followed the oldsters camping out in the big woods and listening to the hounds on a fox while sitting around a fire, when the dogs bayed they were treed, the big 5 cells would show only the reflection of eyes from up in the tree.
The men hated to have the hounds hit a Grey as they would soon have to leave the Campfire and go to the tree and knock it out with sling shots or climb the tree and "kick it out" (done with a stick) so the hounds could race again.
They preferred the hounds to be on a red, so they could sit by the Fire and listen to the hounds bay on it's trail throughout the night.
The hounds loved it. Their tails were always wagging.
